Programs not opening and everything loading really slow.

[Baru02]

Hi, I recently have been having some major problems with my computer. Most programs will not open and if they do it takes 1-2 minutes. I've ran multiple anti-virus and anti-malware programs and they only found PUMs and PUPs. I'm new to posting stuff like this so I'm not sure what information you need to be able to help me, just reply and tell me what you need.

Thanks in advance.

[Shane]

Programs opening slowly normally have to do with either the hard drive going bad or it is under a heavy load from something else. When you open a program it has to be read off the hard drive.

Then it could also be your antivirus itself as it wont let a program open till it scans it. So to see if it is your antivirus slowing everything down, try disabling or even uninstalling it and see how things open then. If they speed up greatly then you know it was the AV causing the problem.

Shane

[Baru02]

I turned off everything and some still won't open or are very slow.
Is there any way to check your hard drive for problems?

[Shane]

Lets see if something is putting the drive under a load. What version of Windows are you on?

Use my program from my other site
http://www.pcwintech.com/drive-speedometer

Download link is at the bottom of the page, I will be moving this tool over to tweaking.com soon

This is a monitor that will tell you the current read and write speeds your drive is under. If the system is running slow and you notice the drive is constantly in use that will point us in the right direction.

You can check the drive for bad sectors by opening a cmd.exe window and the put in

chkdsk c: /f /r

When you try it will say the drive is in use would you like to schedule it for next boot, hit y and enter.

Now reboot and it should do a check before Windows starts up, this check will take a while since it will check ever sector on the drive. The results of the scan will be in the event viewer when it boots back into windows.

Shane

[Baru02]

I am running windows 7 64-bit.
Your program says my "Drive read" is at 0 Bytes/s and "Drive write" fluctuates between 0-400Kb/s although usually staying at 0.
I did exactly as you said although when i restarted my computer it didn't take but about 4 seconds to do what it did and all i can remember seeing is it said something was "clean". this happened right before i log on with my password, and after windows booted up and i was on my account something popped up from system properties and said this: "Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified." I've never seen this and don't know what it means. Also when I try to view the log for the chkdsk theres nothing there, I saw online that you go to...
Event viewer>windows logs>application>either filter or look for "wininit", there was nothing under wininit although i had the option to filter for it.
I had also read that it may be under "Winlogon" so I checked that too and under the time that i did the restart only thing there is, is: "Windows lisence validated." and then "The winlogon notification subscriber <SessionEnv> was unavailable to handle a notification event."

[Baru02]

OK scratch that for what i said about the chkdsk, I had to schedule it again and it worked that time, so all last night I was doing a chkdsk and it gave me this in event viewer: Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date:          5/9/2014 6:54:01
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Justin-HP
Description:


Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                         

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
  783360 file records processed.                                         

File verification completed.
  7456 large file records processed.                                   

  0 bad file records processed.                                     

  0 EA records processed.                                           

  111 reparse records processed.                                     

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  944370 index entries processed.                                       

Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                       

  0 unindexed files recovered.                                     

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  783360 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                       

Cleaning up 271 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 271 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 271 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  80506 data files processed.                                           

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  33801472 USN bytes processed.                                           

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  783344 files processed.                                               

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  99935059 free clusters processed.                                       

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

1447059455 KB total disk space.
1046066128 KB in 649235 files.
    322784 KB in 80507 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    930307 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 399740236 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 361764863 total allocation units on disk.
  99935059 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 f4 0b 00 99 22 0b 00 97 68 14 00 00 00 00 00  ....."...h......
6f 76 00 00 6f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ov..o...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

[Shane]

Ok drive isnt under heavy use and there are no bad sectors.

I am curious on the page file message you got. Since Windows uses the page file as virtual memory, if it is having trouble that could explain the slow down.

Go check the page file settings and post a screen shot of what it shows. I may have you trun off the page file as a test to see if performance improves.

Incase you dont know where it is at,

Go to the start button and right click on computer and click properties.

When it opens click on advanced system settings on the left. Under performance click on settings.

When that opens click on the advanced tab. You will see virtual memory or page file there, click the change button.

That is the page file settings

Shane